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Contents

Foreword
Ivo Strecker

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Chiasmus of Rhetoric and Anthropology
Chapter 2. Root Metaphors for ‘Culture’ and Social Life
Chapter 3. Enargeia, Metonymy and Synecdoches: Videocentrism in Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Chapter 4. Varieties of Rhetoric in Kazimiera Zawistowicz-Adamska’s Społeczność Wiejska (Rural Community)
Chapter 5. Persuasive Engrams: The Work of Memory in Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Tristes Tropiques
Chapter 6. Coercive Script and Innocent Speech: Re-Thinking Jacques Derrida’s of Grammatology
Chapter 7. Artful Speakers and Willful Listeners: The Quandaries of Irony Prejudice and Pre-Texts
Chapter 8. Paronomasia and Complexity of Parody: A Rhetorical Reading of Stephen Tyler’s ‘a Post-Modern in-Stance’
Chapter 9. Accusation and Defence: The Rhetorics of ‘Moral’ and ‘Objective’ Anthropologies

Conclusion

References
Index

Culture Figures

A Rhetorical Reading of Anthropology

Michał Mokrzan

Foreword by Ivo Strecker

224 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-539-3 Hb Published (June 2024)

eISBN 978-1-80539-540-9 eBook